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# Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka c2: Contents

Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka c2

- **Language:** English

### Contents

### [c2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.wheeler-1959.c2.1)

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 7

### [c2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.wheeler-1959.c2.2)

PREFACE 13

### [c2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.wheeler-1959.c2.3)

I THE SCENE 15

### [c2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.wheeler-1959.c2.4)

II TIME 21

### [c2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.wheeler-1959.c2.5)

III STONES 34 NORTHERN INDIA CENTRAL INDIA SOUTH INDIA

### [c2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.wheeler-1959.c2.6)

IV MORE STONES 63

### [c2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.wheeler-1959.c2.7)

V THE INDUS CIVILIZATION 93

### [c2.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.wheeler-1959.c2.8)

VI THE GANGES CIVILIZATION 118

### [c2.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.wheeler-1959.c2.9)

VII EARLY CIVILIZATION IN CENTRAL INDIA 134

### [c2.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.wheeler-1959.c2.10)

VIII SOUTH INDIAN MEGALITHS 150

### [c2.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.wheeler-1959.c2.11)

IX ASHOKA 170

### [c2.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.wheeler-1959.c2.12)

NOTES 181

### [c2.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.wheeler-1959.c2.13)

SOURCES OF ILLUSTRATIONS 190

### [c2.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.wheeler-1959.c2.14)

CONTENTS THE PLATES 191

### [c2.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.wheeler-1959.c2.15)

NOTES ON THE PLATES 233

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